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MPs support bill to incentivise rural households to convert kerosene boilers to HVO

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MPs support bill to incentivise renewable liquid fuels

A proposal to incentivise rural households to use HVO to fuel their heating systems has been put to parliament. On Wednesday 11th January, the influential Cornish Conservative MP and former...

Interview

Kevin McPartlan of Fuels for Ireland

...about getting kids to school, people to work, heating homes and businesses and keeping shelves full. “The industry is not about defending fossil fuel, even though Ireland has one of...
George Eustice MP

Interview

In conversation with George Eustice MP

...the passing of the amendment and the promise of a consultation to consider incentivising the uptake of sustainable liquid fuels for domestic heating. “It was quite the achievement, because the...
A step in the right direction

Analysis

A step in the right direction

...the recognition it deserved when the Government put forward an amendment to the energy bill that grants the powers to introduce a Renewable Liquid Heating Fuel Obligation (RLHFO), similar to...

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£800,000 investment expands HVO fuel trials

The liquid fuel heating industry has today announced the second phase of its fossil fuel replacement demonstration as it commits to convert 200 homes and businesses across the UK from...

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The distributor offer revisited

...– amply demonstrated during the harsh winter weather of December 2010, when demand for heating oil soared. Good levels of general customer satisfaction in the domestic heating oil market were...

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Oil users – fuel price winners once again!

Following the release of the latest comparative average heating price figures from Sutherland Tables, OFTEC reports good news for most oil heating users in the UK. Detailed below, the figures...

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SEA call for regulation welcomed by UKIFDA

...these plans” Calling on the government to bring in a ‘carbon intensity standard’ for the UK to drive down emissions in heating, the SEA report ‘Off Grid, Off Carbon: Regulating...

Insight

How does the french downstream sector compare to the UK?

...heating oil continues to be a material source of fuel/energy for heating purposes. Rationalisation of the refinery network has been pursued with particular urgency over the past five years with...